The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
WATER is so scarce around Rocky Hill, Conn,
hat the babies are hathed in hard cider.

| that the babies are bathed in hard cider.
A MEMBER of the Legislature of British Col
umbia has resigned his seat and will, it is said,
| join the MormonS.
| A. G. DOUGLASS, of st. Louis few days ago
sent to the Farmers Bank Of Wilmington, Del,
So note issued in 1913 for redemption
THREE MONTHS IMPRISONMENT was the SEN
tence given an Englishman who attempted, but
failed, to steal hot plum pudding. but found
1t too hot TO carry and dropped il ON the floor.
GEORGE TAREY, of Moscow Idaho, took aim
at a small black bear, but his gun would not go
off. He threw it aside and rushed for the brute
and. graphing with it, held ON to it until
another man shot it.
THE family of James Rothchild, of Centralia,
H., went to the fair grounds to see the erd of
! deer. A red blanket in the baby carriage at
| tracted big buck and he charged on the
family. Mr. Rothchild was badly hurt before
assistance came.
A VERY UNIQUE MONUMENT has been recently
erected in Forest Hill Cemetery, Boston.
It is a spherical ball of Quincy granite, feet in
diameter, ana resting on a granite base of 10
inches. The original memorial is suggestive of
welrounded life.
The BOYS on an English reform ship in the
Mersey mutned recently and for several hours
were in possession of the ship. They smashed
the furniture and did great deal of damage,
after which seventeen of the worst ringleaders
| lowered boat and escaped to the shore. Some
OF them were recaptured.
HUNTSVILLE (ALA.) SPECIAL says that on
| Tuesday, while some workmen were excavating
| in front of the Huntsville Hotel they discovered
cave. A young man entered and explored the
cavern for fifty yards, and it seemed to run IN
the direction of the county courthouse. A fur-
ther exploration is soon to be made.
| SISTERS OF CHARITY have been going to the
6nrlnP
| season. They have stopped at the entrances
until the crowds of sporting men emerged: and
| then have solicited from the winners OF bets
contributions for church benevolence. They
| found little difficulty in picking out the men
who won money.
| In GERMANY the average duration of the life
of gardeners mariners and fishermen is IS years;
| butchers. "a years; carpenters and bricklayerS,
40 years; shoemakers and tailors, A years; COM
positorS and photographers, Al years. and labor
erS u years. OF. the professions the average
| lifetime of the clergymen is 81 years; teachers,
81 years; lawyers, 81 years, and physicians 40
| years.
THE Town of Franklyn in Tasmania, named
| after the famous navigator, who was once Gov
| ernor of the island, is a deserted ruin. 1t
was once the most thriving town of the settle
| ment and promising seaport, and was besides,
one of the most beautifully situated towns IN the
Australasian world. The gold rush to Australia
| took its population away, and it has never re-
!
| A TEXAS CANDIDATE for Congress wrote his
campaign speech on sheets of paper and pasted
| them together He carried the roll of manu-
script to a meeting and IN the excitement of the
occasion allowed the unread part of the roll to
| become unwound upon the floor. When he
came to the railroad issue he discovered that
some OF his impatient hearers had cut OF that
part Fora moment he stood amazed, and then
| he thundered: Who the - has stolen my
| railroads"
SOME YEARS AGO, as punishment for certain
| political offenses, Thibetan Lama was inform
ed by the Emperor of China that after his death
| his soul would not be permitted to revisit this
world But on the Lama death recently, his
pupils beSought the Emperor to withdraw this
| nterdict. Yielding to their solicitations, the
| soul has been allowed to reappear in the person
| of baby. The Manchu residents of Thibet now
appeal on behalf of this infant for the restitu-
| ton of all the deceased saints poSthumOus
honors.
Town GossIPs in Elkhart, Ind, have just sue
ceeded in causing the death of young and in
| teresting girl of that place, Miss Minnie Adams,
daughter of Rev F. W Adams The poor girl
while the family were away attending funeral,
robed herself carefully for burial, then swal-
| lowed large dose of strychnine, and, locking
| her door, died in agony without uttering cry.
| The afternoon of her death she attended school
and was as animated as usual. There is much
| feeling in the community toward the gossips
who slandered her
| BARON NICHOLAS KoRFF, of st. Petersburg,
Gentleman of the Chamber of the Emperor of
| Russia, and Mr. Louis Poerschke, of Riga, a
| port of the Baltic Sea who is connected with
! the Finance Department of Russia are visiting
this country to investigate the workings of the
| internal revenue service of the United States
and are giving special attention to the study of
| tobacco taxation. Monday last these gentlemen
were in Louisville, KY. visiting a number of
! tobacco manufacturers and looking into the
workings of the collectors office in that city.
THE hope of geological London is at this mo-
ment young gorilla brought from the Gaboon,
and in stature and bulk about the size of a boy
of 10. His room is warmed constantly to tenn
perature of 12o and he has clean straw for his
couch, and the most tempting delicacieS in
Sweetened buildings and bananas, but he has
no appetite, and is evidently in doleful grief at
having been kidnapped from his native forests.
most amiable and accomplished female Chin
panzee lives next door, but even the dulcet
tones of her humorous confabs with her keeper
have not single charm for the homeSick 60
rilla.
THE Imperial Academy of Science at London
has recently completed the publication Of
translation of the New Testament into the Ian
guage of the Calmucks. This is the first at
tempt to make known to the Calmucks the text
of the Christian Gospels The initiative, is due
to the British Bible Society, by which the work
of translation was contided to Prof. Pozneietf,
of the chair of Mongoi and CaImuck literature
in the University OF st. Petersburg. Two hun
dred copies have been sent to Astrachan and
sold to the converted Calnucks of that province
The rest have been sent for distribution in Asia
by European missionaries
Mr.. JONES, with his wife and child lived
happily and prosperously in a little home
Nanticoke, Pa, until recently, when an old
woman called at their house and demanded
food. The hideOuSneSS of the woman's appear
ance frightened Mrs. Jones. and she slammed
the door in her face. The old bag cursed the
family and went away. A few days later Mr.
Jones became sick, and has not been able to
work since; their child became sick also and al
last the wife, their money being exhausted
called on Burgess Powell. and said she thought
they had been "voudooed." and wanted aid TO
return to their home in England.
The Merchant World says that wood in GER
tain form is a most comm and constant article
of diet on the Lena river, all along the north
coast and in the immediate neighborhood of
Yokutsk. in fact, wherever the Yakut resides
North of Verchoyansk except in n few shell
wood than the larch, and for miles south of the.
tree limit absolutely no other The natives eat
= because they like it. Even when fish are plen-
tiful, it usually forms part of the evening meal
| as many of the ceanly stripped arch logs ne r
every hut testify. They scrape of the thick
layers Immediately under the log, and chopping
it fine, mix it with snow. IL is then boiled in q
kettle. Sometimes little fish roe is mixed
with it and further south, COW S milk or butter
THE Cane Cod Canal Ctonpanv is no,- 49,,